[Bug 250709] KMail: please use KWallet for GPG encryption/signing

[Thomas Fischer]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=250709


Thomas Fischer <fischer at unix-ag.uni-kl.de> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Thomas Fischer <fischer unix-ag uni-kl de>  2011-05-09 10:40:27 ---
> Expected Results:  
> KWallet provides the passphrase or the user is prompted to open KWallet

I would like to suggest an alternative path here. Instead of making KMail take
care of all the password handling and GnuPG communication without pinentry,
write a new pinentry application called pinentry-kwallet, which works just like
pinentry-qt or pinentry-gtk, but instead of asking the user for a password, it
would look into the wallet first.

This approach would have two advantages: First, it does not require any changes
in KMail. Second, it would work for all application using gpg+pinentry, such as
Thunderbird.

Programming the pinentry-kwallet application should not be too difficult if one
starts from pinentry-qt, as Qt already supports dbus which can be used to query
the password from KWallet's storage.

Volunteers? ;-)
Maybe make it a junior job ...

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